If you have ever logged a week properly and then watched it become unsearchable — or done the maths on a workout and had nowhere to put the number — you already know why this exists. That was my problem before it was my project.

I am Shiven — a self-taught developer building mobile applications, based in Delhi, happiest somewhere between a code editor and a squat rack. Crumb Count is not a startup with a deck. It is the app the two of us needed, built properly by someone who is still using it every day.

A few years ago I decided to take my health seriously. Not through shortcuts — by actually understanding how energy balance works. Maintenance calories, activity level, protein, a deficit I could live with. The arithmetic is not a secret; it has been in the literature for decades.

17 kgs later, the thing that surprised me was not that it worked. It was how much of the difficulty had nothing to do with the numbers.

So I tracked it all by chatting with an AI. It worked — until it did not. After a week or two the conversation grew too long, context slipped, and the data I relied on quietly disappeared. Every new chat meant rebuilding history and re-explaining my goals.

I spent the summer of 2024 in Google Summer of Code, working on the Liquid Galaxy project — Flutter and Python against Google Earth, with mentors who were generous about how much I did not yet know. Then a year at MadeEasy as a software developer, and freelance work before and since: a taxi platform, a jewellery storefront, a property portal.

Somewhere in there I presented a paper at RIC’24 at IIT Guwahati on deep learning for knowledge retention in children with dyslexia, placed second at a few hackathons, and ran Git and Flutter workshops for my college GDSC.

When I am not building, I am usually watching something — anime, films, whatever series has taken over my evenings — or several chapters deep in a manga or manhua. I am at the gym most days. And I love food, Asian cuisine especially, which is a genuinely inconvenient thing to love while running a deficit.

That last part matters more than it sounds. Plenty of trackers treat eating as a problem to be minimised, and if you love food that turns logging into a daily argument with yourself. This one is built so you can eat the thing and still know exactly where you stand.

Crumb Count is the first step. Every entry stays on your own phone, works offline, and every number links back to the published model behind it. The AI reads a photo or a sentence and returns calories and macros, and costs a workout against real sports-science models.

The larger idea — an app that builds on your history instead of treating every day as a fresh start — is what I am still building towards.

Whether you are trying to lose weight, gain muscle, improve performance or simply become healthier, small improvements repeated for months create life-changing results. That is what Xeros is designed to support.